Most spectacular new x-ray image of the sun.

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A NASA space telescope designed to peer at faraway black holes has snapped a stunning image of the sun. Taken by NASA's NuSTAR spacecraft (short for Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array), is the best-ever view of the sun in high-energy X-ray light. The new image, overlays NuSTAR observations (seen in blue and green) onto an image of the sun captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

It was primarily designed to study black holes and other distant sources of X-ray light. But solar scientists had suggested using the spacecraft to look at the sun several years before it got off the ground.

This image was processed & enhanced by me & software I made myself. Sorry I had to shrink it to keep future bandwidth & server resources down.